I have just purchased new cooling for my rig: 2x Akasa RAM Heatspreaders Arctic Cooling VGA Rev3 Thermalright SK-7 YS-tech TMD Fan Socket A shim I have installed everything and it seems that the pc does not like the SK-7, it just beeps and does not turn on, and furthermore, after installing the Arctic Cooling VGA Silencer, my graphics are now bust!! what could be the cause of this? anyone please help, im about to cry and rip my hair out!
its an abit nf7-s with latest BIOS, and its a continuous pattern of beeps (dee-du, dee-du) and is there anyway to fix my graphics card? this is what the graphics look like now http://img49.photobucket.com/albums/v150/UberJase/?action=view¤t=ffs.jpg looking at the heatsink its as if the CPU has melted some holes into it, maybe it is shorting out the CPU?
Sounds to me like a ram problem. I've got Corsair hi-perf. ram that has to be manually set to 3,4,4,8 if the cmos resets itself to 'By SPD' I get similar boot problems. The only solution I've got is to chuck in some ram that works by SPD, boot to BIOS, reset the timings, save cmos settings, turn off, swap the ram back and voila, good boot. It's a bit of a pain but only usually happens when I remove the CPU or upgrade the BIOS (and forget to reset manually first time).
its not a RAM problem as it runs fine with my other cooler (TT Volcano 9). I think i may have damaged one of the chips on the G-Card, like the soldered feet of one of the chips. il try to fix it but i dont have a soldering iron
oh cmon, wheres the community when u need them? why can a lump of metal stop a PC from booting up? i have came to the conclusion my G-Card is dead... ffs
i have heard of this happenening when a HSF is badly installed. Have you tried cleaning it and the CPU extreamly thoroughly and reseating? What paste did you use?
OK, i have researched the Beep Codes and it is a 2-tone siren indicating overheating or out of spec voltages, considering i havent OCd it must be due to overheating, but how can a more powerful HSF make it overheat, i came to the conclusion that it is too heavy that it is resting on the diode and causing an alarm when it boots, thus, shutting down before anything happens, ill try messing with the diode, im using the stock thermal grease that came with the HSF.
pointless money on something when a free thing does the job just as well. and i dont trust it either...
But it doesnt! it could be adequate but not nearly as good as AS. why? ok so it has some metalic content but youre just assuming that the free paste has no metalic content or does not conduct (if this is indeed why you dont trust it) Id bet there is more people using the SK7 with AS than with the free goop! Its kinda like having a sports car and putting crappy tires on it when good tires are not much more cost.
apart from the fact that good sports cars come with good tires I think your diode theory is a load of crap, chances are it's not seated properly, getting poor contact, basically reseat the heatsink, you only need a thin amount of thermal paste and make sure the heatsink is even presured over the cpu. Also get rid of the shim, probably doing more harm then good. I suggest taking more care when motuning stuff in the future.
its all mounted fine and boots perfectly on stock BIOS settings (2800 barton at 1250MHz) then it shutsdown and sirens when it feels like it after it laods windows, when i try to set it to a 2800 it reboots then shutdown siren, it works perfectly on my volcano 9 though, this is stupid, i hate my comp now nothin works so whats the point in it EDIT: btw, thermal material has nothing to do with it
dont mean to be annoying but my logic goes like this: 1) System running fine with crap cooler 2) Change the crap heatsink for a better one 3) PC starts to reboot due to overheating Hmmmm.... Surely if a better performance heatsink is giving you temperature problems then there must be a problem with it? It is worth taking of the heatsink, removing the shim and remounting even if it doesn't fix the problem you can eliminate it as a possible cause
it still does the same thing with the shim removed, ah well, ill RMA the heatsink and fan but keep the rest, im getting my G-card replaced tomorrow aswell, hopefully i can get an upgrade (9600p-9800p ) cheers for all ur help guys and sorry if i annoyed any of u
